Joe Biden's been around so long, Johnny Carson was hammering him for plagiarism way back in 1987. pic.twitter.com/Q105lQpJzT

— Scott Whitlock (@ScottJW) September 17, 2020

CNN Forum Throws Nothing But Softballs and Pathetic Biden Strikes Out Anyway

“…Another on-brand topic here is the thorough awfulness of the American mainstream political media. Wanted in all fifty states for the murder of ethical journalism, the MSM is once again working overtime to help get a Democratic presidential candidate elected despite said candidate’s myriad flaws.

At the beginning of the month I wrote that I didn’t think that the media could prop up Joe Biden until the election.

I may have underestimated the hacks who pollute the MSM.

An integral part of propping up Grandpa Gropes is attacking President Trump, of course. On Tuesday night¸ President Trump subjected himself to a town hall on ABC that was hosted by former Clinton administration flack, George Stephanopoulos. My HotAir colleague Karen Townsend watched and had some observations:

I confess, I watched. Going into it, my expectations were low. I was not disappointed. The event was even worse than I thought it would be. The participants were allegedly uncommitted voters though, after listening to their questions, that description is impossible to believe. It was easy to assume that all but possibly two of the very small audience are Biden voters. The voters were identified by name and for whom they voted in 2016 if they voted at all.

The question that kept popping up for me was whether or not the people had been coached by ABC staffers before the town hall began. I say that because the overt hostility and aggressive line of questioning were unusual, even for Trump opponents. This is 2020, though, and clearly any form of civil behavior is to be set aside if political points can be made, especially against the president. For example, I have never seen a person stand up and ask a question of any president at a town hall and while doing so, rudely not allow him to respond until she permitted it. Ellesia Blaque, an assistant professor from Philadelphia with preexisting conditions, asked a question about Obamacare. As she did so, Trump began to respond but she shut him down. “Please stop and let me finish my question, sir,” she said. She voted for Hillary in 2016.

My mom called me as soon as it was over to go on about how awful Stephanopoulos was.

I felt it was important to pass along my mother’s opinion. It’s Friday, we can free-form a little. Also, I’m a good son.

Last night, CNN — aka The Official Broadcast Wing of the Democratic National Committee — hosted Joe Biden for an hour-long forum. This affair was a bit more cuddly than the president’s time with ABC. Even so, Slurry Joe struggled with things like English and his own policies.

Bronson Stocking has more at Townhall:

Joe Biden praised the idea of incorporating fact-checkers into the presidential debates, but those desperately needed fact-checkers were nowhere to be found at CNN’s town hall event with Biden on Thursday.

In stark contrast to President Trump’s town hall event with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos earlier this week, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and a crowd of mostly friendly supporters took turns asking the 77-year-old candidate softball questions.

Biden told all sorts of lies during the one-hour event on CNN, a fitting location for such fake news. Biden lied when he accused President Trump of not mentioning the coronavirus in his State of the Union Address.

“My administration will take all necessary steps to safeguard our citizens from this threat,” Trump said in his State of the Union Address, which Nancy Pelosi ripped up in anger.

There were a couple of Kabuki theater moments that CNN staged to try and make things seem legit. Host Anderson Cooper briefly pressed Biden on the fact that he’s been all over the place on the fracking issue, for example. Biden gave a barely-coherent answer and Cooper let it go. That’s a classic MSM ruse with Democrats. The interviewer will hit the Dem with the “hard question,” then accept virtually any answer and leave it at that…”

The media has thoroughly destroyed their own reputations.

Worth clicking over for the whole piece.

Anna L. Stark:

“…We live in strange times, when wrong is right, facts are not the truth, and questioning a narrative not based on science elicits  immediate condemnation — what’s more commonly referred to as being canceled.  Since the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, not only is the overused meme “rely on the science” irksome, but, apparently, relying upon science applies only in certain circumstances.

While observing the scientific method in order to prevent the spread of a microscopic virus, science doesn’t apply to the definition of biological sex.  In fact, the science of biology has taken a back seat to the bizarre thinking of male and female being interchangeable.  Anyone who dares to challenge the contentious transgender narrative is deemed irredeemable.  Two people keenly aware of their now canceled status are the widely popular children’s book author J.K. Rowling and the greatest female tennis player in women’s sports history; Martina Navratilova.  Their crime?  Both women expressed contrary opinions about transgenderism…”

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Worth clicking over for the whole piece.

Steve Feinstein:

“…Let’s say this straight out, so there is no chance of any misinterpretation whatsoever: It is impossible for any sane, rational, level-headed person to consciously support the Democratic ticket in 2020. On every single issue, right down the line, the Republicans offer a better solution and their path of governance delivers a superior quality of life to every American. It is provable, unarguable and unequivocal…”

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LA County ‘bans’ celebration of Jewish High Holy Days

This is America.

The Democrats have gone insane.

Democrat.

Democrats control Los Angeles government up and down the chain.

Vote for Democrats and this is what you will get.

The left has captured education in this country and destroyed it.

Cronkite school station manager officially out after Jacob Blake tweet

• • According to emails obtained exclusively by Campus Reform, the ASU station manager who came under fire for her Jacob Blake tweet is now officially out of a job.
  • The school declined to comment and the student maintains she did nothing wrong.

“…That email came about two weeks after the station’s six directors urged Klein’s removal from her station manager position over a tweet in which she shared an article about Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and his arrest warrant for sexual assault, “Always more to the story, folks. Please read this article to get the background of Jacob Blake’s warrant. You’ll be quite disgusted.”

Klein’s tweet prompted widespread calls for her termination, resulting in Gilger giving Klein three options: “Reassignment to another student worker position,” “Remain on the board with the assignment I outlined,” or “start your own station.” Klein told Campus Reform that the “assignment” to which Gilger alluded “would be a new board position where I work on diversity and different issues.”

Roughly one hour later, Klein responded to Gilger, writing, “After long consideration about the situation, I am declining to willingly step down from my position as Station Manager. I truly believe I did nothing wrong that is worthy of removal. No one has communicated to me any law, written standard, or rule I violated with my actions. I shared a factual argument, and although I shared an opinion, that I was disgusted by the sexual assault of a woman, I have done nothing more erroneous than my peers.”

“I was told to tweet as part of my assignment at Cronkite News, and as a student, am learning how to do so to standard. The issue remains, many students at the school don’t know what that standard is. I stand by the belief I am being treated unfairly, and the school and faculty advisers have failed to protect me and my rights as a student and individual,” she added…”

Fantastic!

Betsy DeVos Calls Princeton’s Bluff: If You Really Are Racist, No More Federal Funding

“…Early this month, Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber went through the woke “anti-racist” rite of confession: he published a letter confessing the ongoing racism at his university under his leadership. Such confessions serve to prop up the ridiculous claim that any racial disparities are ipso facto proof of “institutional racism.” Claims like Eisgruber’s are less a confession of actual fact and more a rhetorical weapon to push Marxist critical race theory.

Yet the Department of Education (DOE) decided to call Princeton’s bluff. According to a letter obtained by The Washington Examiner, the DOE launched an investigation into the Ivy League university. Princeton, like other schools that receive federal funding, pledges to abide by certain federal laws in order to receive federal funding.

Since Eisgruber became president in 2013, Princeton has received more than $75 million in federal Title IV taxpayer funds and the school “has repeatedly represented and warranted to the U.S. Department of Education Princeton’s compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” the letter reads. “Title VI provides no person in the United States shall, on the ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

“On September 2, 2020, you admitted Princeton’s educational program is and for decades has been racist,” the letter notes. “Among other things, you said ‘[r]acism and the damage it does to people of color persist at Princeton …’ and ‘[r]acist assumptions…remain embedded in structures of the University itself.’”

“Because of racism, you announced race-based ‘diversity’ measures for hiring, procurement, teaching, fellowship, and research funding,” the letter adds.

“Based on its admitted racism, the U.S. Department of Education ic concerned Princeton’s nondiscrimination and equal opportunity assurances in its Program Participation Agreements from at least 2013 to the present may have been false,” the letter explains. “Finally, the Department is further concerned Princeton’s many nondiscrimination and equal opportunity claims to students, parents, and consumers in the market for education certificates may have been false, misleading, and actionable substantial misrepresentations in violation of” U.S. law.

Therefore, the DOE is opening an investigation into Princeton and may end up removing funds from the university — and demanding Princeton pay back taxpayer funds it should not have received. “Based on the facts, the Secretary of Education may consider measures against Princeton for false Program Participation Agreement nondiscrimination assurances, including an action to recover funds.”…”

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Census data boosts Trump, showing record income gains and historic low poverty

Median household incomes for African-Americans, Hispanics, and Asian-Americans all hit record highs last year, as did median income for women, according to new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

AG Barr rebukes career DOJ prosecutors for political ‘headhunting,’ insubordination

AG also decries culture of criminalizing political differences in America.

Treasury flagged foreign money flowing to Hunter Biden-tied firms as ‘suspicious’

Senate panels investigating whether law enforcement, U.S. intel turned blind eye to concerns.

Trump shattered diplomatic norms, rejected establishment to pave way for historic Middle East peace

Trump ignored historical convention set by past U.S. presidents by not visiting a North American country — typically Canada, though George W. Bush opted for Mexico — for his first foreign trip as president, opting instead to visit Saudi Arabia.

COVID-19 emails from Nashville mayor’s office show disturbing revelation

“…The coronavirus cases on lower Broadway may have been so low that the mayor’s office and the Metro Health Department decided to keep it secret.

Emails between the mayor’s senior advisor and the health department reveal only a partial picture. But what they reveal is disturbing.

The discussion involves the low number of coronavirus cases emerging from bars and restaurants and how to handle that.

And most disturbingly, how to keep it from the public…”

Democrat.

Nashville is a Democrat city.

Vote for Democrats and this is what you will get.

CDC director says masks are more effective against COVID-19 than a vaccine. Months earlier, he said the opposite.

NEW: CDC Director Redfield to US Senate cmte.:

“These facemasks are the important, powerful public health tool we have … I might even go so far as to say that this facemask is more guaranteed to protect me against COVID than when I take a COVID vaccine.” pic.twitter.com/7LJZ3U9xi1

— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 16, 2020

CDC Director Robert Redfield on masks, 6 months ago, prior to the “new science”: pic.twitter.com/idEfQ2RpYF

— Jordan Schachtel @ dossier.today (@JordanSchachtel) September 16, 2020

“…Redfield and other top public health officials have repeatedly stressed to the public that the purpose of masks is not self-protection, but rather preventing a person from spreading the virus to others. His Wednesday comments directly contradict that and could further undermine public confidence in a pending vaccine that people are already wary of.

“Most face masks do not effectively filter small particles from the air and do not prevent leakage around the edge of the mask when the user inhales.” Redfield wrote on Aug. 25. “The role of face masks is for patient source control, to prevent contamination of the surrounding area when a person coughs or sneezes.”…”